My soul sisters, my friends

They’ve been friends for 25 years, had their fun and fights but their relationships have endured. Kathryn Flett celebrates her girl gang

Kathryn Flett, with her four closest girlfriends of the last twenty five years (Chris Floyd)
I am in a room with my mates — which happens all too rarely — and it’s
buzzing. It’s not the “usual” gathering, around a dinner table at somebody’s
house or, if there’s a birthday (and these days it would have to be a
landmark birthday), propping up a cocktail bar — no, today we're doing a
photoshoot for Style, so there’s a different kind of atmosphere.

I’m the last to arrive (everybody else lives within a few square miles of each
other in London, while these days I’m in a far-flung corner of East Sussex)
and already our room is a predictable riot of hair and make-up, clothes and
shoes, through which the male photographer moves, eyebrows firmly raised,
taking the temperature, looking ever so slightly bemused by the sight before
him.

Here are four of my favourite women (there are six in total, but only four
could make it on the